Longport
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borough in Atlantic County, New Jersey
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Atlantic
- Incorporated
- March 7, 1898
- Named after
- James Long
- Type
- Walsh Act
- Body
- Board of Commissioners
- Mayor
- Nicholas Russo (term ends December 31, 2024)
- Municipal clerk
- Monica Kyle
- Total
- 1.56 sq mi (4.03 km )
- Land
- 0.39 sq mi (1.02 km )
- Water
- 1.16 sq mi (3.01 km ) 74.49%
- Rank
- 447th of 565 in state, 23rd of 23 in county
- Elevation
- 0 ft (0 m)
- Density
- 2,259.8/sq mi (872.5/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )
- Zip code
- 08403
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- borough of New Jersey
- Official name
- Longport
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Atlantic County
- Population
- 893
- Area
- 4.040323
- Elevation
- 0
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Margate City
- Official website
- www.longportnj.gov
- Image
- Longport NJ house.jpg
- Households
- 436
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- postal code
- 08403
- Commons category
- Longport, New Jersey
- inception
- 1898-03-07
- water as percent of area
- 75.3094
- per capita income
- 104068
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Great Egg Coast Guard Station in Longport Longport is a borough situated on the Jersey Shore on Absecon Island, within Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, on the Atlantic Ocean shoreline. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 893, a decrease of two people (−0.2%) from the 2010 census count of 895, which in turn reflected a decline of 159 (−15.1%) from the 1,054 counted in the 2000 census.
Geographically, the city, and all of Atlantic County, is part of the South Jersey region of the state and of the Atlantic City-Hammonton metropolitan statistical area, which in turn is included in the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden combined statistical area and the Delaware Valley.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Longport” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.